Ahmed Traoré

Right Midfielder - Fatih Karagumruk
11 Dec 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Ahmed Traoré

17 Edition

The Fatih Karagumruk Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Daniel Johnson damages knee ligaments — 42 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 42 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Fatih Karagumruk bow out of the cup

Trabzonspor go through and Fatih Karagumruk go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Aleksandar Pešić yet — 8.18

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.18 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Words exchanged at Fatih Karagumruk

Ismail Jakobs and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings

Ahmed Traoré beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Fatih Karagumruk find a way past Alanyaspor

Alanyaspor made Fatih Karagumruk work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

Daniel Johnson gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Yusuf Özdemir

Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

The dugout

A satisfied Abdullah Tosun

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Abdullah Tosun could afford to be generous.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Fatih Karagumruk Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Furkan Bekleviç decides it from twelve yards

3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Cup progress for Fatih Karagumruk

A 1‑1 win over Umraniyespor, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Ahmed Traoré was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 34. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Player ratings

Yaya Onogo, 18, steals the show — 7.64

Marked 7.64 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

Manolis Siopis in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fatih Karagumruk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

One of their own: Peter Itodo

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Aleksandar Pešić the difference as Fatih Karagumruk beat Giresunspor

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aleksandar Pešić. 2‑0 against Giresunspor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Berkay Özcan

Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Daniel Johnson

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief